Supplemental light for lamps.



E. E. TAYLOR & H. ELKINS.

SUPPLEMENTAL LIGHT FOR LAMPS.

APPLICATION TILED JAN.16, 1909.

Patentai 313.11% 22, 1969,

WI [NESS/JS UNIED srarns Parana: @FFICEQ EDWA TAYLOR AND DAVID HENRY ELKINS, or AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN- o'Rs T WILLIAM GRAY AND LAMBERT HOLLANDER, OF AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

surreal/lawman molar roe LAMPS.

No. canoes.

Specification oi Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1909.

Application filed Janeen 16, 1909. Serial No. 472,638.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that we, EDWARD E. TAYLOR and Dawn H. ELKHQS, citizens of the United States, residing at Amesbury, in the county of Essex and State of lilas'sachnsetts, have "invented certain new and useful Improvethe bright acetylene light is blindin ments in Supplemental Lights for Lamps; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which :r ppertains to make and use the same.

The object of the invention is the provision of a supplemental light for lamps, and especially for such lamps as are adapted for use on automobiles and other vehicles which are propelled through much froquented thoroughfares and highways.

in city streets where there is much travel to the users of automobiles and other vehic es who are traveling in an opposite direction and to persons who come within the area covered by the light, and thereby frequent accidents are occasioned. A soft and less glaring light is required under the circumstances mentioned and it is desirable that a supplemental light be provided and one which may be brought into use quickly to take the place of the acetylene light, and vice versa, as the automobile passes from relatively dark streets to crowded ones and from the latter to the former.

Our invention consists in the combination with a lamp of a supplemental light emit with an acetylene gas burner of a su ple-' mental burner or lamp which can be shifted, turned or folded to approximately the position occupied by the flame of the as burner,

and also shifted, turned or folded to a position away from the said gas burner.

The accompan ing drawing illustrates an example of ti sica embodiment of the invention o i ing to the a ranges. accoidfor the ciple.

Figure 1 shows a. lamp with an acetylene gas burner and also a supplemental light emitting device. Fig. 2 is a side View of the means for supporting the supplemental device. Fig. 3 is a top plan View of Fig. 2.

Referring to the several figures, the numeral 1 designates an acetylene gas lamp such practical application of the prinis adapted for use in connection with automobilcsgiil, a gas burner of well known construction; 3, the hollow burner standard or pipe; l, the hollow tip which communicates with the standard and burner and to wl icli is attached the rubber tube or hose, through i which latter the gas passes from thegenerator to the burner; 5, the supplemental lighting device, in this instance. an incandescent electric lamp, provided with conductors in communication with a suitable electric burner standard; 13, the enlarged and pen forated ends of the clip, the said ends being spaced apart to receive between them the enlarged ends 9 of the clip 7, as shown; let, a butterfly nut with a threaded shank passed through the perforations in the enlarged ends 15f both the clips 11 and 7, as clearly illustrated; 15, the clamping nut proper on the shaft, said parts with the threaded shaft forming a pivot about which the clip 7 and lamp can be turned, the upward movement being limited by the lugs 10,

as is obvious; and 16 are two threaded screws passed through holes in clip 11 and provided with nuts whereby the said clip can be adjusted to and removed from the gas burner standard with facility.

It will be observed that the reflector and as burner are fixed and that the gas burner is located in front of the reflector.

When the acetylene gas burner is in use and theautomobile passes from a relatively dark street to a street containing oth r; vehicles or foot passengers the acetylene bur er is extinguished andthe electric lamp tur or shifted from its lowered position to a position appronimatcly coinciding with the position formerly occupied by the flame of the gas burner, or, in other words, to the focal point of the lamp. When the gas burner is again to be used the electric lamp is shifted to its lowered or previous position or to a position not in front of the gas. burner.

What we claim is:

l. The combination with a lamp having a casing, fixed acetylene gas burner within the casing and in front of the reflector, a supplemental light emitting device within the casing, and

the casing and to which means the electric lamp-is secured; whereby the electric lamp may be turned to a position away from the j fIQnt of the gas burner when the burner is in use, and when the latter is not in use to a position adjacent the burner.

3. The combination with a lamp having acasing, of a reflector within the casing, a

of a reflector within the casing a fixed acetylene gas burner in. .Erontof the refiector, a supplemental'light emitting device within the casing, and an arm pivoted within the lamp casing and supporting the said supplemental light emitting device; wl'ierebj, when thegas burner'isnot in use said su plemental light emitting device may turned to, a position adjacent thesaid burner.

i. The combination with a lamp having a hollow standard and a fixed acetylene gas burner, of a supplemental light emitting declips being secured to the standard and the other to the said supplemental device' and means for holding the said clips in di erent angular positions.

5. The combination with a lamp having a fixed acetylene gas burner, of an. electric light bulb; means for movably supporting said bulb so it can be shifted to a position above the burner when the burner is not in use, and for supporting the same within the lamp and so as not to obstructthe light from the acetylene gas burner when the latter is in use.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures, in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWVARD E. TAYLOR.

DAVID HENRY ELKINF i Witnesses MARY A. BOURKE, ROBERT (.1. CLARK.

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